3-Dimensional Simulation Of Fabric Structure And Appearance Based On The 3DS MAX7.0 Software

Applied the computer software to simulation of Fabric structure is one of the mostly about the study on currently textile area. The main of 3D simulation software on the market such as AutoCAD, Creator&Vega and 3DS MAX. The fabric CAD is focus on simulate the structure and appearance to fabric and it is also the main applied computer software in domestic textile industry. How realized to simulate the structure and appearance about fabric , achieved realization of design idea quickly, and it was also concerned by textile designers.Using the computer software to assist fabric design was not complete exert it's potential. And the main causes such as, one side the software was not aim to special industry to design at it's earlier plan, on the other hand fabric designers learn about correlative software's functions were not enough and they hadn't initiatives to using the software to assisting fabric structure design and analysis.The keystone of this paper is using the software of 3DS MAX7.0 to simulation the fabric structures and appearances, and emphases to realizing 3D simulation the fabric structure about simple weaves and 3D weaves. Adopted the NURBS Curve to modeling, and avoided the spiculat e corner to emergence, and used the circle take the place of the yarn's section. Through the fabric pattern draft and calculated the reference points'3-axial parameters then have drawn the space interlacing curves. And have accomplished the simulation of fabric structures by Lofting of modeling. The simulation of 3D fabric structures need to adjusting the distance of between the layers, the reference points were not in the same plane with the separate curve and the method of accounting 3-axial parameters have changed. Using the function of group to edited the curves into a whole for multilayer fabrics, and with the copy and moving to completing the interlacing, and realized the simulation of multilayer fabric structure at last. In the simulation of simple fabric's appearance, the shape of yarn's section is so important and we selected the ellipse in paper.From the process of simulation in the paper, we obviously find that the software of 3DS MAX7.0 has an important signification in the area of fabric designs.